On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 15:59 +0400, Marat Buharov wrote: > On 4/27/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Aside: why the heck do applications think that their data is so important > > that they need to fsync it all the time. I used to run a kernel on my > > laptop which had "return 0;" at the top of fsync() and fdatasync(). Most > > pleasurable. > > So, if having fake fsync() and fdatasync() is pleasurable for laptop > and desktop, may be it's time to add option into Kconfig which > disables normal fsync behaviour in favor of robust desktop? Nah, just teaching user-space to behave themselves should be sufficient; there is just no way kicker can justify doing a fdatasync(), I mean, come on its just showing a friggin menu. I have always wondered why that thing was so damn slow, like it needs to fetch stuff like that from all four corners of disk, feh! Just sliding over a sub-menu can take more than a second; I mean, it _really_ is just faster to just start things from your favourite shell. No way is globally disabling fsync() a good thing. I guess Andrew just is a sucker for punishment :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
